Better Systems. Better Fundraising.

 Many nonprofits don't need more fundraising advice.

They need practical infrastructure that helps teams focus on the right opportunities, manage donor pipelines, strengthen board reporting, make better fundraising decisions, and build sustainable revenue strategies.

The Saltworks Fundraising Lab is an applied research, learning, and capacity-building initiative designed by the team at Saltworks Collective.  We're investigating a potentially overlooked barrier to nonprofit sustainability: the gap between fundraising opportunity and fundraising execution.

Through the Saltworks Fundraising Lab, we're conducting interviews, collecting practitioner feedback, testing tools, and documenting recurring patterns related to fundraising execution and organizational capacity. The goal is to develop practical insights, frameworks, and tools that help nonprofits strengthen the infrastructure needed to support sustainable revenue growth.
 

Who It's For  

➢ Community-based nonprofits

➢ Growing organizations with limited fundraising capacity

➢ Teams operating without dedicated development operations support

➢ Organizations seeking greater fundraising sustainability

A practical system for organizations that need greater visibility, accountability, strategic focus, and fundraising sustainability.

Designed to help you:

✅ Improve donor follow-through

✅ Organize prospect strategy discussions

✅ Build better board reports

✅ Increase accountability

✅ Spend less time managing spreadsheets

Includes:  

• Major Gift Pipeline Dashboard  
• Prospect Review Worksheet & Process Guide  
• Board Fundraising Scorecard  
• Donor Strategy Worksheet  
• AI Prompt Library for Fundraisers  
• Quick-Start Implementation Guide 

 A more comprehensive fundraising operating system for organizations that need reporting, forecasting, and management tools.  

Designed to help you:

✅ Forecast fundraising performance

✅ Establish consistent reporting rhythms

✅ Improve pipeline visibility

✅ Create executive-level dashboards

✅ Build scalable fundraising systems

Includes Everything in the Starter Kit, plus:  

• Revenue Forecasting Dashboard  
• Executive Fundraising Dashboard  
• Campaign Reporting Templates  
• Development Team Meeting Toolkit  
• Pipeline Management Framework  
• Expanded AI Prompt Library  
• Implementation Roadmap 

Research suggests that most nonprofits rely heavily on one primary funding source and build their funding strategies around a natural match between their mission and the funders most likely to support it.

Yet many smaller organizations lack the systems and infrastructure needed to identify priorities, coordinate fundraising activity, and pursue those opportunities consistently.

We're exploring how practical fundraising infrastructure can help close that gap.

I'm currently exploring ways to make practical fundraising systems, dashboards, templates, and operational tools more accessible to nonprofit organizations.

Before building new resources, I want to better understand the challenges nonprofit organizations are currently facing, and which tools would be most valuable.

Click below to complete a short survey and share your perspective. You'll also have the option to express interest in future pilot opportunities as the Fundraising Lab evolves.